Health Plans and PBMs

ePrescribing provides a relatively low cost environment enabling providers with limited resources to adopt technology. ePrescribing improves the level of care for all your members by providing easy access to a healthplan’s formulary, eligibility and member prescription history.

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Health Plan Benefits

Save Time

  • Tuffs Health Plan – Savings of up to two hours per day for physicians and office personnel and one hour per day for pharmacists. 1
  • Henry Ford Foundation - Over 70K prescriptions were changed or canceled due to formulary warnings 3
  • AHRQ - Estimated 30% of all non e-Prescriptions require pharmacy callbacks, e-Prescribing will reduce pharmacy callbacks by 80%. 7

Save Money

  • Tuffs Health Plan - Cost savings of up to $.40 per member per month (PMPM) due to an increase of preferred and generic prescribing 1
  • Henry Ford Foundation  - Of 1.7 million prescriptions sent electronically in 2006 Generic use rate improved from 57% to 68% which was calculated to have saved $1.44 million 3
  • Milliman / RxHub - Primary care physicians using electronic prescribing have the potential to generate annual generic drug savings of $175 to $260 per member per year. 5

Save Lives

  • Tuffs Health Plan – 8.9 fewer safety errors per physician per year 1
  • Henry Ford Foundation  - 1.7 million prescriptions sent electronically in 2006.150K prescriptions were canceled due to drug-drug interaction warnings, 11K prescriptions canceled due to drug-allergy warnings and$540K estimated savings from reduced ADEs.3
  • Institute of Medicine (IOM) - 1.5 million Americans are injured by medication errors. 25% of these injuries are preventable. 4
  • AHRQ - ePrescribing systems can avoid more than 2 million ADEs annually, of which 130,000 are life-threatening. 7

1 Tuffs Health Plan – Published 2004 - Conducted a study of 113 e-prescribers in 15 practices over a 12-month period starting in 2003.
2 Harvard / Zix Published 03/07 18 month study with control group of 14,391 physicians (1,035 wrote e-prescriptions)
3 Henry Ford Foundation Published - 2006 Study
4 Institute of Medicine Report: Preventing Medication Errors. July 2006
5 Milliman / RxHub:  Impact of e-Rx on Medicare Prescription Drug Spend. (05/06)
6 Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Nov/Dec, 2006
7 AHRQ - Findings from the Evaluation of E-Prescribing Pilot Sites. AHRQ Publication April, 2007
8 Hewlett Packard Study, 2/22/06
9 America’s Pharmacist, April, 2005